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Quote:Last month, Microsoft issued no new security bulletins as part of its monthly update. Not one. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

This month, though, the tune has changed, as nine patches are on tap, some of them rated as "critical."

Internet Explorer is among the Windows applications that are likely to be patched...

full story: http://www.internetnews.com/security/art...hp/3554836

only nine patches this month

Microsoft Windows security update released Tuesday.

Quote:Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for 14 flaws in Windows, including a security hole that one expert says is ripe for exploitation by a major worm

The majority of the vulnerabilities addressed in nine security bulletins from Microsoft require some user interaction for an attack to succeed...

However, the vulnerabilities rated "critical" may allow a system to be compromised remotely without any user interaction...

full article: http://software.silicon.com/security/0,3...245,00.htm

[quote author=rose link=topic=729.msg2865#msg2865 date=1129013574]
only nine patches this month
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That is a small amount compared to the number of Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostGres patches we've had to do this month.  The Windows updates took 15 minutes  last night, the updates we did to this server late last night took over 1 hour.   :twistedevil:

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